Monthly Statement:
November 2005

OBJECT # 10
DATE SENT: November 30, 2005
SENT TO: John W. Fesken
SENT VIA: US Postal Service
DESCRIPTION OF OBJECT: Square cube box, made from unpainted 1/4” plywood. Box measures 6 1/2” in all dimensions, with a lid that rests on four corner braces, each 5 1/2” in height. It is dusty, and lid has slight chips on one side, as do other surfaces. Lid is recessed when put in place.

ORIGIN AND APPROXIMATE DATEOF POSSESSION OF OBJECT: The box was hand built by my studio assistant William Ortega in 1997 for an art project involving bloodied Band-Aids and velvet. (Refer to d-acum object #6 , wood box, October 2005, for further information.)

MOST RECENT LOCATION OF OBJECT: On black table and against east wall of my studio, on right hand side of light box.

RELATION OF OBJECT TO RECIPIENT: John is my third cousin, and while I have known him for many years as a family member, it is only in the last two or three that I have known his work as a musician and an artist, and have spent a little time with him in social settings. I actually grew up with his father, doing many things together when I was a kid hanging out in Hoboken. It has been a continuation of that relationship to know John, and since we are both artists it is particularly important. I first saw John’s visual work at his exhibition in October, 2005 at 58 Gallery in Jersey City. His work is evocative, haunting, and layered with life and death. Most of the pieces utilize boxes of some sort, many of which he told me he found. Although this box is both simple and not particularly aesthetic or significant, I thought John might be able to use it for one of his pieces. I felt happy to know that he might consider it as my contribution to his creative work.

RESPONSE OF RECIPIENT:

DATE OF RESPONSE:

Process: My plan is to de-accumulate objects I now own during the course of the exhibition year. I will photograph the selected object then send the object with a letter to a person who has some relationship to the object or whom I think might be interested in the object. The letter will discuss the project and tell the receiver they can keep the object, destroy it, give it away, recycle it or anything else they choose. I will ask them to document it in the place they now have it and send their image and/or written description back to me of what they did with it and where it is. I plan on de-accumulating an average of one object per week. The new images/descriptions will be placed in a plastic folder and exhibited along with a photograph of the object as it was in my possession.